Fludd (band)
| Fludd | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | rock |
| Years active | 1971–1977, 2000s |
| Labels |
Warner Brothers Daffodil Records Attic Records |
| Associated acts | Goddo, Saga, Leigh Ashford, Quartz |
| Members | Ed Pilling Steve Pilling Jim Crichton Scott Shelson |
| Past members | Brian Pilling Mick Walsh Tom Park Greg Godovitz Jorn (John) Andersen Mick Hopkins Peter Csanky Gord Waszek Peter Rochon Doni Underhill Pat Little Ian McCorkle Steve Negus |
Fludd was a Canadian rock band in the 1970s, best known for their 1973 hit "Cousin Mary".
Fludd had its roots in a band called The Pretty Ones, formed by Ed Pilling and Greg Godovitz. The band was briefly part of Toronto's Yorkville scene in the 1960s, but broke up before achieving much commercial success. Pilling and his brother Brian then moved to Birmingham, England, where they formed a band called Wages of Sin and spent some time touring as a backing band for Cat Stevens in 1970, but returned to Toronto by the end of that year. Inspired by the then-emerging psychedelic blues rock sound of British acts such as Small Faces, they then reunited with Godovitz, and recruited drummer John Andersen and guitarist Mick Walsh to create Fludd.
The band released its self-titled debut album in 1971, and had a modest chart hit, "Turned 21", that year. Walsh subsequently left the band and was briefly replaced by Mick Hopkins, a British guitarist whom the Pillings had worked with in Wages of Sin. The band's second single, "Get Up, Get Out, Move On", was released in 1972 but again charted only modestly, and the band were dropped from their original label; Hopkins returned to England, where he would later form the band Quartz. Instead of recruiting another guitarist to replace Hopkins, the band instead added keyboardist Peter Csanky, and signed a new deal with Daffodil Records. They planned for their second album to be titled Cock On, and to feature a cover image of the band posing as flashers, wearing overcoats but naked underneath, but the label's distributor, Capitol Records, was skittish and the plans were dropped; the album was instead released as ...On!
The album's singles, "Always Be Thinking of You", "Yes", and "C'mon, C'mon", did not perform much better on the charts, but received sufficient radio airplay that Daffodil kept the band on for a third album, sending them to Mike Oldfield's studios in England to record. Due to Oldfield's simultaneous recording of Tubular Bells, however, the band faced delays in its ability to book time in the studio, and the sessions were eventually scrapped. The delays also led Csanky to quit the band; he was replaced by Peter Rochon. With no new material to release, however, the label revisited ...On! in the hopes of pulling one more single; the song chosen, "Cousin Mary", became the band's breakthrough hit.
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